Another ASpie sign - humor is as humor does.

I suddenly remembered another little trait that I have noticed for many years.
People often used to assume that I was joking when I was saying something serious, and thought that I was being serious when I was joking!
I have remarked on this to friends on occasion, I suppose more as a question - i.e. Why does this happen? Never got a useful answer.
OTOH, it has led to a useful "script" - I learn/remember jokes told by professional comics, and then practice them (OK, not that much practice). And I have acquired a little talent for telling jokes now. BTW, they are all the old style of joke, ala Henny Youngman or Groucho Max. Nice, short quickies, sometimes one-liners. And the old jokes are useful, because many people have never heard them. (Helps that I'm old enough to know them, hahaha, I guess.)
Personally I detest dirty jokes. The old saying used to be (among pros anyway) that if you have to be dirty to be funny, you're not funny. (e.g. Eddie Murphy is not funny.)
And it is Sooo gratifying to have people laugh when you actually planned it!